Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-20
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and blue, 9 suite Of stiff upholstered
furniture, selected with very little re-
gard TO harmony with carpet, blue
white lace curtains over chilly Holland
shades Of the same color; blank, star
| ing white walls from which family por-
traits and engrayings or paintings and
the inevitable I" what-not started out
most painfully. Now all Is changed,
and people are rapidly learning, espe-
cially bright, aggressive young people
in whose sunny homes lies the bright
promise for the future Of our dear
land, that there are other things far
more TO be desired than an expensive
carpet or suite Of furniture. and that
the one thing needful in home-making
is neither the one nor the other, pur-
chased upon the advice of the dealer
or manufacturer or Of the limitations
of ones own purse. but those things
which contribute most generously to
the deeper, truer life OF its inmates,
the life Of the mind and soul. There
rise before me, while l write, two
homes which l sometimes visit. In
one the walls and ceilings are beauti-
fully papered, the carpet very pretty
brussels, the curtains expensive lace,
the furniture plush-eoyered; and yet,
were il not for the sweet little life
which looks out TO me from pair OF
eyes so lately from Heaven descended
as to retain some of its unearthllness,
| should feel strangely starved and
homesick every moment spend there,
in spite of true friendship for its own
ers. Why3 Because there is no true
individual and higher life expressed
there. True. there is piano, but the
music, what little there is, is piled up
so primly that one can see at glance
il IS never used. There are no books
except two or three elegantly bound
ones, which lie on the handicapped
table. The one engraving, in its hand
some frame, is rather pretty, but ut
terly powerless to convey one idea of
inspiration or repose, as the eye re-
turns to it again and again. for very
lack of others and of those little artI-
cles of beauty in bric-a-brac, etc, which
most women of refinement feel they
must have, though it be at the sacrifice
of personal adornment or table luxu-
ries. In the other house the walls are
covered with paper which probably
cost about one-third as much as the
first; its neutral color being relieved
by a band of maroon flock paper
and gilt picture rail. The carpet, which
only covers the floor to within about
eighteen inches of the walls, Is an in
grain. repeating the maroon and neu-
trail tint OF the paper, the floor painted
maroon. The furniture IS In odd pieces.
In place Of a sofa is a cheap but COM
Portable lounge, there is large rattan
rocker, two or three upholstered rock
ers Of different but harmonious colors /;
the commodious table is covered by an
ample spread OF maroon, and upon it
always may be found the last number
of the best magazines or the newest
book; upon the walls are many en-
cravings and etchings in the cheapest,
simplest wood frames, with broad mats,
| but each possessing some peculiar
merit or interest to which the mind
returns with pleasure; the old square
piano is always open and the well
wsrn music and song books show the
result OF use of many years. In short
| the refined, intelligent owners have
succeeded in imparting something oi
their own lives 10 these objects with
which they are daily surrounded, and
the result IS bright home. full OF the
intensest vitality and yet the trues'
rest. These hints are not written FOL
old experienced housekeepers whose
ideas and tastes long ago passed
through the crystalizing period, and
are henceforth Interchangeable, but fol
young people whose future homes are
| only building.
First, in regard to location, Away:
aim at sunny rooms. No elegance oil
taste in furnishing can make up fol
lack Of this health-giving property fol
mind and body, the blessed sunlight
| am convinced that comparatively
few housekeepers realize its true value
In the days OF gloom following a great
bereavement often felt unusually up
| lifted into q better atmosphere of hope
and consolation, and in trying TO trace
the influence to its f0un tain, could md
no other reason than that had spent
| A whole forenoon in a room whose cur.
I tainless east window let in the full
glory of the morning sun, whose glad
sweet message 20 my physical nature
had begun the Fathers own work Of
healing 10 my soul
Promising always that you will allow
no influence whatever TO lead you into
buying anything you feel beyond your
means, and avoiding debt and useless
extravagAnce IS you would a pest,
lence, let me say to you, hrst, last and
always. and with all the emphasis Of
which the English language Is capable
| insist upon harmony in color and char
acter Of your furnishing, II has been
truly said that wisdom lies IN knowing
what not to buy rather than what to
| buy. How often Is the effect OF
pretty or even handsome piece OF FUR
niture ruined by being placed IN
room whose other appointments do
! not harmonic with it, The wall pa
per Is all-important, and should DC
chosen not only with regard 20 har-
mony with proposed carpet and furnl-
ture and woodwork, but also with con
sidsration TO light, and whether you
have heavy, handsome oil paintings
for the walls, or enErayings. eiehings
or water-colors. For a north room, OF
any room not too light, nothing Is
prettier for woodwork than cherry I'M
| 81, natural II possible, II not, then
/ imitation. With this woodwork, pa
/ per Of golden olive effect, or two shades
j 81 duh blue or teA-green or eltrins
/ would be suitable. For carpet, II IN
| grain. one Of the new patterns showing
/ two shades Of a color; in this case ma
room or Indian OF dull red. Ingram i
! preferable 70 tapestry brussels. but i
/ BODY brussels Is preferred, then a pat
| tern showing olive ground with figure.
| in olives. duh reds and dnli blues WI
be pretty. For Curtains and portieres
II one does not wish to so to the ex'
pense Of buying the handsome manu-
/ kaetured ones. the best quality Of fel'
cloth, with broad band OF yeiours Al
the ton. az the same color, gives very
I sstisfart.srv results. Care must be Oh
servei in regard 10 figure II the wal
nsner shows = decided figure. then
plain curtains and portaeTes afford .
restful contrast. but Il the paper gives
/ ~ efF,,rt a one color. then figured OF
srriped arapegies are Aliowahle.
FOR summer EezT. mKttings, tn$tese
/ Of CARPETS, are much used They come
/ In pretty artistic shades odd pink ana
sa4e green. olive and cnl rsd---And Goa
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